Pressing element for pressing machines



March 26, 1929. A. KAGI Y PRSSING ELEMENT FOR PRESSING MACHINES FiledOct. l2, 192'? INVEIYTOR.

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A TTORNEYS Patented Mar. 25, 1929.

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ALBERT KAGI, F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITY COMPANY,INC., OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

IPRESSING ELEMENT FOR PRESSING MACHINES.

Application ed October 12, 1927. Serial No. 225,794.

This invention relates t-o pressing elements for pressing machines asgarmentpressing machine-s and has for its object a particularly simpleand etlicient valve mech-- anism for controlling the alternate flow ofair and steam to the lpressing 'face of the pressing element.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations andconstructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in allthe views.

.Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View through a pressing elementembodying my invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional vieW through the valvemechanism.

The pressing element is usually the head of a pressing machine whichalso includes a buck on which the garment to be pressed is Iii-st laid,the head being movable toward and from the buck. .A 1

1 Adesignates the head or pressing element- ,Which is formed With aninternal heating chamber 2 for steam and a lengthwisepchannel 3 withinthe steam chamber, but disconnected therefrom, the channel openingthrough the pressing face of the head 1 through' a line of perforations4. Also, the pressing face is covered with asuitable covering as of Wiremesh 5 Which serves to distribute the steam over the face of the.garment being pressed. A distributing plate (i is preferably carried bythe covering 5 and opposed to the jet openings 4. The channel 3 servesas a5eo'liiilii'itjtlirough which either steam or aircan be projectedthrough the jet openings 4f The valve for controlling-the flow of airand steam as here shown includes a valve easing 7 mounted on the headand having an out-let passage 8 in alinement with a passage 9 in thehead which passage extends through a web 10 into the channel 3. Thecasing isalso formed with separated valve chambers 11, 12 both of whichopen into the inlet chamber 8, these valve chambers being separated by-a partition 13. The upper valve chamber 11 communicates With the sourceof supply of air through a pipe 14 and the lower valve member 12communicates through a passage 15, with the steam chamber 2. The flow ofsteam or air is controlled from the chambers 11 and 12 to the outletpassage 8 by a pair of alternately operable valves having a singlehandle.

16 designates the valve in the chamber 11, this valve being normallyagainst its seat 17 and having a stem 18 extending to the outside of thecasing through a suitable packed gland 19.- The valve is held againstits seatby a spring 20 located in a cap 21 which threads into asuitable` opening in the casing. Thevvalve 22 which controls the flow ofsteam linto the passage 8 from the valve chamber 12 also hasja stem 23 isimilar to the stein 18 and varranged parallel thereonand `is'aeted uponby a spring 24 arrangedsimilarly tothe spring 20. The valves arealternately operated `by means ofl a hand lever 25 pivoted at 26 to abracket 27 on the valve casing, one arm of the lever coacting ywith thevalve. stem`1'8 and the other arm with the yvalve stem`23.

Obviously, by moving thehand lever 25 to the lefttheY stem"y of thevalve 22 will be opened and steam, will' pass from the steam chamber `2,valve chamber l2, passage 8, channel 3 'through the jet openings 4 andWhen the handle v25 is moved to the right from its normal position, thesteam valve 22 will remain closed and the air v alve opened to permitair to pass from the pipe 14 through the chamber 11, passage 8, channel3 and the jet openings 4.

What I claim is:

The combination with a pressing element of a pressing machine having aninternal chamber for a heating medium and a length- Wise channel havingjet openings opening through the pressing face of a pressing element, ofa valve comprising a casing mountedon the pressing element :and having apassage communicating with said channel, a pair of separated chambersone being "connected to the internal steam chamber ofthe pressingelement and the other having an inlet pipe for compressed` air.,normally closed spring pressed valve heads in said chambers and havingstems extending to the outside of the easing and a. lever pivoted to thecasing and coaeting with said stems on opposite sides of its axis,whereby when the lever 1s rockedin one direction from neutral position,one valve is opened and when it is rocked in the other direction, theother valve is opened.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at Syracuse, inthe county of Onondaga and in the State of New York, this 12th day ofJuly, 1927.

ALBERT KAGI.

